Otoko no shigoto? 2/?

[hikarinoniji]

As the music softly soothed away, the girls were directed to the couch where both Koyama and Nakamaru were waiting for their new kouhai's.
Nervously the girls took their places as the were been told before the show, and most of them stole nervous glances at each other, still a bit startled about the fact that they just finished their first stage appearance for a live audience.
The atmosphere in the NHK hall was weird, and somewhere in the air there lingered a certain disbelieve from both the audience and the male juniors. Though everyone applauded, it seemed more like a polite 'we-have-to-do-this'-applause. The sincerity wasn't there yet, and it made Katsumi frown a little, before she sat down.
Some of the girls bumped into each other, squeaking and yelping a little. Some muttering some to the other or giving a playful push back. It was nothing like the professionalism their Johnny's senpais were known for, but it did gave the group a very human-like appearance. Some of the other juniors grinned at it, and also the audience took a better look at the 10 girls. Maybe it was too soon, but when the group was like this they could find a place somewhere in their hearts for these 10 girls.
Nakamaru grinned at the girls a little bit amused by the clumsy and awkwardness of the new group. He kinda got reminded of himself when he was on Shounen Club for the first time, but he was very well aware there wasn't as much pressure on him back then, as on these girls right now. Koyama just sent them a sweet and comforting smile, and Rina who picked up the smile felt a little bit calm after seeing it.
There was a short talk in which the Shokura hosts introduced the group again, and in which the girls couldn't do anything besides nodding and smiling at the camera.

"Saa~" the oldest of the two man spoke, "let's properly introduce them as individuals, who would like to start?"
At that question 9 pairs of eyes directly shot towards the oldest one who smiled nervously, hoping that if you would stay quiet, the torch would be given to someone else. Tough luck. Both the hosts had seen it, and now looked at her with the questions almost burning in their eyes.
"Hikari-chan is it, ne?" the taller man asked, and the girl nodded, "please tell us who you are and where you are from."
"And who your admired senpai is!" the other added excited, as if he was hoping for something, which made the oldest girl gulp a little.
She slightly bow her head as she cleared her voice, making sure it wouldn't tremble, "my name is Yoshiro Hikari, I'm 18 years old and I'm born the Amsterdam, the Netherlands. However since I was 2 years old my parents moved back to Tokyo where I'm raised." She paused a little bit, as the hosts nodded at each other, seemly impressed by the fact she was born so far away. "And my admired senpai's are Arashi's Ohno-kun, and NEWS's..." Koyama gasped a bit. "Kato-kun."
Nakamaru nearly choked at that comment and laughed softly, never having met someone who thought of Shige as an 'admired senpai'. He received a little push form Koyama who smiled (obviously a bit disappointed), as he muttered under his breath, "well, he'll be very happy to hear that."

The tad bit smaller man still grinned as he said, "okay, next~" Hikari quickly gave the girl next to her, Yuzu, a little push. Said girl opened her mouth to mutter something to her leader but Koyama caught her and thought she was willing to speak next, "ah, Yuzu-chan you can be next."
The girl wanted to protest but had no other choice since the whole audience seemed to be focused on her, including two of her senpai's. She shot her leader a glare before she spoke, "my name is Izuna Yuzu, I'm 16 years old and born and raised in Tokyo. My admired senpai is Inohara-kun from V6." She smiled broadly after that, glad this was over. She wasn't the type for sucking up all the attention and didn't like speaking in public. Yet she loved the perform, which was her reason for being in J-GIRL. She received a few smiles from other juniors, that were still sitting on the stage, waiting for the talk to end so they could start their own performance, and nothing but happy thoughts entered her mind.

"Tsuki-chan? Would you like to speak?" Koyama asked with his trademark smile and a soft voice.
The little girl, a bit startled at the sudden attention wanted to shake her head, but her body seemed to think otherwise and nodded. She sighed. It was better to get it over with right away. A little nervous she started, "I-I'm Hirano Tsuki, 13 years old, born in Sendai. My favorite senpai is Koyama-kun." With that she was done speaking, and looked at the two men in front of her, as she felt the hand of Rumi caressing her back in a comforting way.
"I like her," Koyama beamed, at which he received another nervous smile. She felt proud at the fact she had said it pretty clear, and being praised by the senpai she admired the most. Maybe this whole 'speaking-in-public'-thing wasn't so bad after all. Though she hoped she wouldn't be forced in situations such as this one.

Nakamaru, having seen the gesture of Rumi towards the little girl said, "Rumi-chan, would you like to go next?"
The girl looked at him in surprisement and wondered for a second how the hell they knew all their names, but a soft push in the back woke her up from her little thoughts. "Errr... Erika Rumi yo~ 17 years old, born and raised in Osaka. My admired senpai is Nishikido-kun. Yoroppiku!" She grinned widely at her own answers and everyone just stared a bit at her bluntness. She didn't seem to mind though, and was actually quite satisfied. She mischievously  she waved some peace signs to the camera, which made the person behind it chuckle, causing her grin the expand even more.
Slowly the tension was getting less, and the atmosphere actually got quite comfortable for the girls.

Without either one of the two hosts having to direct them, another girl spoke bowing slightly and getting an approval nod for the two men, "hai~ My name is Hanazawa Aya. I'm 15 years old, and live in Tokyo. I have a lot of senpai I admire," she smiled.
The two hosts looked at each other with a slight glimpse of hope in their eyes.
"I like Ueda-kun and Yamashita-kun."
"YamaPi?" Koyama interrupted her, at which she nodded and continued, "and Tegomass and Arashi too."
Again, a clear sigh of disappointment was heard from both the hosts, especially Nakamaru who wasn't mentioned yet.
Aya saw the looks in their eyes, and quickly added, "but I like Nakamaru-kun and Koyama-kun too, ofcourse!"
She received a sincere smile of the men, and was smiled back at them.

The next girl up was Haru, who didn't mind to speak but was a bit hesitating over her answers. Thus far, everyone had mentioned senpais from the older groups, but the one she admired most wasn't that old, and his group wasn't that long in the run. In the end she decided she couldn't give a damn about what people would think if it, simply because it were her feelings and she said, "my name is Takada Haru, I'm 17 years old and I'm born and raised in Sapporo, but living in Tokyo for the time being." There was a little silence, and two pairs of eyes were fixed on her waiting for the answer.  And my admired senpai is Yabu Kota-kun from JUMP."
With that being said she crossed her arms, as id it was over and done.
"That brat," Koyama playfully cried out, but only receiving a grin from Haru and a friendly whack on the head of Nakamaru.

There was a little silence, but the director signed they had to hurry up, because the talk was taking too long, and there were more people who were waiting for their own performance. Thus Reina took the opportunity to speak up. "My name is Aoyama Reina, I'm 15 years old and I'm from Yokohama. My admired senpai is also Yabu-kun."
The tallest man grunted in a faked annoyance as he heard the name of his kouhai again, but laughed as another girl spoke, "I'm Aoyama Katsumi, 14 years old and also from Yokohama. My most admired senpai is Sakurai-kun from Arashi."
Nakamaru stared at the two girls, "you are both named Aoyama, coincidence?"
The oldest of the two girls shook her head, "no, we're sisters." And the youngest nodded.
Koyama clapped his hands, as he looked a bit over joyed, "well, that must be fun right? Being in the same group as your sister."
The girls looked at each other and started giggling. "It is sometimes, but it can be very annoying too. Because Reina-neechan is my older sister, she can be very stern during dance practice," the younger one said, earning a glare from her older sister. "Luckily there are older girls also correcting her, so I don't feel bad about it afterwards." she added, at which the oldest J-GIRL members started to grin.

Now it was time for Rina to speak up, and she shuffled her feet a bit before actually saying anything. "My name is Ayukawa Rina, I'm 16 years old and I'm from Nagoya. My admired senpai is Yabu-kun."
This time it was Nakamaru trowing his head back, as he muttered, "why Yabu-kun? What's so good about him?"
This was something the girl didn't expect and she mumbled, "well, he's a good singer and dancer."
"So am I!" Nakamaru protested.
"He's taller then you are."
Everybody looked at the girl who said that, and Haru just looked back. "What? He is!"
In the mean time Koyama had started laughing, and the girl took that as a good thing. Being quite content with herself.

The last girl who spoke was Nakamura Kumiko, 14 years old from Kyoto who liked Takizawa-kun a lot.
"Well then, we have one last question for you girls, we are sure a lot of people would like to know. How did you enter Johnny's? Not with normal auditions right?" Koyama asked.
"Some of us are picked up on the street," Kumiko answered.
"Just randomly?" Nakamaru asked with a little disbelieve.
Kumiko nodded, "yes, I was walking with friends when a man approached us, and gave me his card. At first I thought he was just a dirty old man, but because I was curious I called the number given, together with my mom. We were told that it was for an audition for a new girl-group, but at the time we didn't know it was for Johnny's."
The youngest man nodded, "and why was that?"
Kumiko scratched the back of her head, "I can't remember really."
"That was because it was supposed to be a secret project. Only the 10 remaining girl were supposed to know about that. There were a lot of people though," Aya commented.
Haru nodded, "when everything was done, we were told we we're picked out of more then 1000 girls, and that it was a project for Johnny's Entertainment. I was really proud, and I guess that counts for all of us."
Everyone agreed to this as the oldest member added, "some of us are picked out of data-bases of other entertainment companies. These girls never had done any jobs, but Johnny's scouts thought of them as girls with potency."
The two sisters nodded, as they were girls who entered JE like this.
Koyama wanted to ask something more about the subject, but the director pointed out to his wrist, saying time was up.
"Well everyone, this was the biggest surprise we had in Shounen Club up 'till now. But I hope everyone enjoyed it, and learned a bit more about these 10 girls."
Nakamaru added, "we hope to see you again soon! Good luck!"
And with that the hosts started announcing another performance and the girls were directed backstage.

"They sure took their time," Daiki sighed, as he dropped himself down on a chair.
"Well, there's 10 of them," Chinen smiled, "and we also take our time when we have to speak individually." Keito nodded at this comment and Yuto hummed along with the lyrics of the just performance song Yuuki100%.
"It think it's pretty cool we get to show them around at the company," Ryutaro grinned, "I mean, we'll be the group closest to the girls. Haha, I bet the rest (Shintaro) will be so jealous!"
Hikaru quickly got up as he wacked the younger boy on the back of his head, and he pointed to the group of girls coming their way, "guys there they are!"
A bit startled the group approached the JUMP boys who smiled at the 10 girls.
It was Yabu who stepped forwards, "welcome in Johnny's. I hope you guys don't have anything to do after this. Because outside is a van that will take us to the building."
"W-Why?" Hikari asked with slight disbelieve.
"Because we're gonna show around there."


OTL SOOOO LONG!
Notes for this chapter:
- Some girls didn't gave me a last name, so I came of with one for them. I hope it's not a bad thing D:
- Yoroppiku is a funny way to say "Yoroshiku"
- Kumiko, I wanted to give you a better introduction, but I didn't know a proper way to do it, without it getting more boring then the introductions already were, that's why you have the most lines in the last part.
- I MADE A BANNER! This is just a BETA version though. I plan on properly coloring it, but not sooner then next weekend.
Order on the banner:
Reina - Daiki, Haru - Chinen, Hikari - Yabu, Yamada - Aya, Rumi - Hikaru, Tsuki - Ryutaro, Kumiko - Keito, Katsumi - Yuto, Rina - Takaki, Yuzu - Inoo. You can click on it to make it bigger~!
- I have already written most of chapter 3 because I wanted to add it to this one, because I think this one is kinda boring. But since I already think this one is too long, I thought I should make to separate chapter of it XD

So that's about it : D I hope you all liked it, and I'll post the next update very soon n__n
Comments are loved and appropriated : D